在其他新闻:凯特琳·詹纳和性别认同

变性符号

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By Michelle Eickmeyer

当布鲁斯詹纳坐下来与黛安·索耶,他公开讨论一战,他一直争取他一生中最。并于4月24日,他让世人对他的秘密:布鲁斯詹纳,美国英雄的运动员和现实伪明星,是变性人。尽管詹纳是一个实际的陌生,我们中的大多数,很多人都觉得他们知道布鲁斯。他们可能已经看到他在电视上,或者在杂志封面。他们可能是许多年前植根于他,因为他似乎体现了美国对苏联的战斗。由于这种独特的地位和情况,詹纳的启示和转型是特殊的。这是第一次,也许是有史以来,全国大部分地区的(如果不是全世界)可以真正地说,他们知道谁标识为变性。在`6月,全球告别布鲁斯,并招呼凯特琳·詹纳。她是谁,她一直是,现在分享她的战斗是她自己,她的外表,与世界同步。

Caitlyn is the most recent in a growing list of main-stream transgender people. In 2007, Candis Cayne turned heads as Billy Baldwin’s mistress for 11 episodes on ABC’s Dirty Sexy Money, marking the first time a trans character appeared for more than a single episode on prime time American television. Chaz Bono began his transition in 2008, after suffering for years with the press. Laverne Cox, one of the stars of Orange is the New Black, became the first transgender person to appear on the cover of Time Magazine (May 2014) for an article titled “The Transgender Tipping Point.” Andreja Pejic (Instagram的)是第一个变性模型出现在Vogue杂志,而哈丽·内夫(Instagram的)签订的建模机构IMF今年早些时候,一为强国机构。还有其他的,有名的,而不是,使每一天的变化。

少的美国人口的1%的1/3识别为变性(Source)。从历史上看,这个群体是一个非常不成比例的暴力,凶杀的20%和警察暴力的40%的收件人。(Source第一季度的)最近的统计数据2014 show that 10% of violent crimes were committed against trans kids under 18. Kids.They were beaten, stabbed, stoned, shot, hanged, strangled, and dismembered. (Source) Sometimes by strangers; sometimes by family. Too often, they kill themselves.

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